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MP Asman Kamama’s powerful name pops up with every cattle raid

Asman Kamama

Every time bandit raids occur in Baringo and the larger pastoralists regions of Kerio Valley, Samburu, Laikipia and Turkana, one name keeps popping up - Asman Abang’otum Kamama.

And despite hue and cry that always accompany the raids for security apparatus to investigate the powerful MP, whose constituents are accused of the raids in which hundreds of people have been killed, many more maimed and thousands displaced, nothing ever happens.

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